2004: Chief investigator for the
NSW Department of
Health collaborative project "Research into Record Linkage to
Geocoding of Addresses using Geocoded National Address Files",
2004 to 2005.

2003: Chief investigator for ARC Linkage Project LP0453463
"Investigation and Development of Parallel Large Scale Record
Linkage Techniques" with industry partner
NSW Department of
Health, 2004 to 2006.

2002: Principal investigator for the AICS #1-2001
(ANU-Industry Collaboration Scheme) start-up grant
"Parallel Techniques for High-Performance Record Linkage
Techniques", funded by the Australian National University (ANU)
and the
NSW Department of
Health, 2002 to 2003.

Professional Activities:

Co-organiser for the programme
Data Linkage and
Anonymisation to be held at the Isaac Newton Institute for
Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Since 2006: Member of the steering committee of the AusDM
conference series.

Co-organiser of the Open Source in Data Mining workshop, held at
PAKDD, 2009.

Since 2012: Senior program committee for PAKDD.

Program committee for IEEE Big Data, 2013; ACM SIGKDD, 2013 to
2015; IEEE ICDM 2014 and 2015; VLDB, 2012; plus over twenty
workshops held at top tier conferences over the past ten years.

Reviewer for many top tier journals, including Elsevier
Information Systems; International Journal of Information Fusion;
Annals of Applied Statistics; IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and
Data Engineering; Springer Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery;
Springer Statistics and Computing; Elsevier Data and Knowledge
Engineering; ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality;
Springer Information Retrieval; Journal of the American Medical
Informatics Association; International Journal of Health
Geographics; SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing; as well as
several book proposals.

2014: Reviewer for the Canadian Research Council and the US
National Science Foundation.

2012: Peer Reviewer for the ARC Excellence in Research for
Australia.

Since 2010: International Reader for the Australian Research
Council (ARC).